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Paramount, Warner, and the Price of Consolidation

Los Campesinos!’ 20-year archive of silly band T-shirt designs is a sweaty journey through indie rock aesthetics

It’s Nice That (INT): Can you guys introduce Los Campesinos! for anyone in our audience who may not know about you. Gareth Campesino (GC): Depending on who you ask, Los Camp! are either the UK’s first and only emo band, a bastion of principled independence and better than ever, or simply “still going!?”. Whichever way

The CFAA Case That Decides Whether AI Agents Can Visit Your Website

Amazon sued Perplexity over its Comet browser shopping on Amazon under user authorization. On March 10, 2026, a federal judge in the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction blocking Comet from accessing Amazon’s logged-in pages. Roughly a week later, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals paused the injunction pending Perplexity’s appeal. On May

Hires and Promotions at OpenAI, CNN, Chloé and More

This week has been another revolving door of chief marketing officer (CMO) hires and departures. We’ve rounded up the U.S. and global marketing leadership moves you need to know about for the week ending May 29. – OpenAI has hired ServiceNow‘s Colin Fleming as CMO for its business unit, a move that signals the company

This incredibly lifelike 3D character design blends Netflix inspiration with real history

Melvin Okoronkwo is a 3D character artist specialising in realistic humans and detailed hair. He enjoys bringing characters to life from concept illustrations using the best 3D modelling software. Below, he explains the inspiration and process behind the strikingly realistic 3D model, Lady Kököchin. “The main inspiration for this piece was the TV show Marco

Is Performance Max Actually Better Than Running Separate Campaigns?

Our next Ask A PPC tackles a question many advertisers are wrestling with right now: “Is Performance Max actually better than running separate campaigns?” Usually, this question shows up after an account has already run Search campaigns and is wondering if consolidating search themes into a Performance Max campaign is the way to go. I’ve

The marketer’s new playbook for AI-powered competitive intelligence

If you’re like most brand teams I talk to, you’ve got a system for keeping tabs on the competition — dashboards, weekly reports, and someone scrolling competitor social feeds every few days. It feels organized. It feels like staying informed. But watching competitors and understanding what their moves mean are two different jobs. I’ve sat

White-Collar Will Be Fully Automated In 18 Months – So What Makes You Different?

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, has predicted that most professional white-collar work will be fully automated by August 2027. Marketing. Accounting. Legal. Project management. He named them. The day before, I’d been reading about Jensen Huang’s commencement address at Carnegie Mellon, where he told 5,800 graduates at one of the country’s top engineering schools

Publishers are starting to make meaningful AI licensing deals

Publishers are quietly cutting six-figure AI licensing deals on Snowflake, as the data giant positions itself as matchmaker-in-chief between locked-down news content and enterprises keen to plug reliable publisher content into their own internal AI tools via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). For publishers, the cloud platform’s Cortex Knowledge Extensions act as a monetized RAG pipe: a

Trevor Small works through his brain injury with the ultimate art practice: embroidery

In 2001, Trevor Small experienced a brain injury and spent a few weeks in a coma. He stayed in Homerton Hospital in London for two and a half years, doctors told his family that he wasn’t going to make it. Bit by bit, Trevor learned how to walk again, how to wash and dress, how

WordPress Market Share Declines For Six Months In A Row

The latest statistics from W3Techs make it clear that WordPress is losing market share while other platforms are stable or experiencing strong interest. Yet, there is reason to believe that WordPress may turn around. Quarterly Declines Since January 2025 W3Techs’ quarterly statistics show WordPress usage holding steady at about 43.0% throughout 2022, followed by a

Holiday Weekend Brings a Mixed Bag

This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of May 18, 2026. With the approaching Memorial Day holiday weekend, the cable news networks delivered a variety of results during primetime and total day. All three recorded week-to-week gains in either total viewers or the Adults 25-54 demo during primetime,

AI Hideo Kojima wears Prada in controversial sci-fi campaign

The devil wears Prada, and it seems so does video games designer Hideo Kojima, or at least AI-generated Prada. Following an initial collaboration in Tokyo last year, the creator of Metal Gear and Death Stranding is heading to New York for Prada Mode’s Satellites II at the Hotel Chelsea in June. Coinciding with the Tribeca

Position 1 Is Halfway Down The Page: New SERP Visibility Data

Ranking #1 doesn’t mean what it used to. In fact, 57% of organic position-one results sit above the fold on desktop, and only about 40% do on smartphone. The takeaway from a guy who works at a rank-tracking company: rank alone is no longer enough. Capper walked through your brand’s position from a pixel height

How to use B2B PR to shape what AI recommends

B2B brands are learning that showing up in AI-generated answers is only part of the challenge. AI systems also shape how vendors are framed, compared, and recommended during the buying process. That distinction matters because more software buyers are now turning to AI tools before they consult analyst reports or search engines. According to a

Google’s I/O Demos Reveal The New Business Visibility Problem

Google I/O produced a week of coverage on how AI will change the search experience. Most of it focused on consumer features, with less attention paid to a pattern that’s emerging for businesses. Many of the highest-profile consumer demos at I/O take the user from search to action, with Google carrying more of the journey

The Skai deal brings retail and commerce advertisers into ChatGPT

OpenAI may be telling marketers to treat ChatGPT as a test channel rather than a performance one but its partner deals, tech builds and measurement moves tell a different story about the advertiser it actually wants. The latest is a deal with commerce media platform Skai, according to two sources with knowledge of it. Like

How do you design youth? The Young Vic’s new logo uses motion blur to flip dated theatre branding

How do you design youth? Traditionally, the youth is seen as trendy, modern, in front of the curve. For venturethree, the advertising agency behind the Young Vic’s newest identity, youth signifies vitality, a restlessness, forward momentum. In previous identities, the Young Vic, a self-described “disobedient theatre” was characterised by a graffiti-stencil look, communicating a suburban

AI Content Alone Won’t Fix Your Search Visibility (Here’s What Will)

Most in-house SEO teams and agencies have adopted AI for content briefs, drafts, on-page recommendations, and technical audits. The output is up, but two things are happening at once, and SEO teams have to solve both: Why More AI-Assisted Content Isn’t Moving Rankings Search behavior has shifted. Long-tail queries (10+ words) have grown sharply, query

CBS News Has Double-Digit Gains in Demo

The week leading up to the long Memorial Day holiday weekend was a good one for the three evening news programs, as they finished with no viewership declines in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. For the week of May 18, all three newscasts recorded gains in total viewers, while NBC Nightly News with

This Tim Burton-esque Mexican stop-motion movie is finally coming to Netflix

While Amazon trolls us with the announcement of a KPop Demon Hunters AI mockbuster, Netflix is fortunately continuing to bring real animation to its streaming platform. I Am Frankelda, billed as Mexico’s first independent stop-motion feature film, will be available to watch in just two weeks’ time, and the trailer has animation fans captivated already.

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